Ahmed Eldawy

Overview

I'm a fifth year PhD candidate at the Computer Science and Engineering department in University of Minnesota.
I'm a member of the Data Management Lab under the management of Prof. Mohamed Mokbel.
My broad area of research interest is in databases and data management. My main research topic in my PhD is
spatial data management in distributed environments.

Projects

SpatialHadoop is an extension to Hadoop that enables efficient processing of large scale spatial data. It adds a spatial language, termed Pigeon, spatial indexes, and spatial operations. It ships with a dozen of efficient spatial operations including range query, spatial join, and a suite of computational geometry operations.

Minnesota Traffic Generator (MNTG) is a web service for generating realistic traffic based on well designed traffic generators. We use existing traffic generators such as Brinkhoff generator and BerlinMOD generator. Since these generators are generally hard to setup and use, we build a web service that accepts users requests, generate the data in our own servers, and send an email to the user once the generation is ready with links to visualize and install the generated traffic.

Sindbad is a location-aware social network which takes into consideration the location aspect of users, news items, and other entities in the system as a first-class citizen. For example, the news feed in Sindbad is location-aware which means it gives higher priority to news items closer to user location. Another example is the location-aware recommender which takes the locations of users and items into consideration to give better recommendation.

Recent Publications

Ahmed Eldawy and
Mohamed F. Mokbel.
"The Era of Big Spatial Data".
In Proceedings of the International Workshop of Cloud Data Management
CloudDM 2015
co-located with ICDE 2015, Seoul, Korea, April 2014.

Ahmed Eldawy and
Mohamed F. Mokbel.
"SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data".
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2015, Seoul, South Korea, April, 2015.

Ahmed Eldawy,
Justin J. Levandoski and
Per-Åke Larson.
"Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database".
In Proceedings of the the International Conference on Very Large Databases,
VLDB 2014, Hangzou, China, September 2014.